Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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